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1960
峰
HŌ, mine
‘foot’, a determinative sometimes taken
peak, top
as having the connotation ‘upwards, high’
L1
10 strokes
(Mizukami, Katō), with (see 1953) ‘luxuriant
vegetation; (vegetation) thrusts upwards’
SHUHŌmain peak
taken in one view as semantic and phonetic,
RENPŌmountain range
giving ‘thrust upwards’ (this interpretation
mineuchi with back of sword noted in Mizukami). KJ1970:862; OT1968:304;
Seal ; late graph (later version of Shuowen).
TA1965:322; MS1995:v1:284-5. We suggest
taking as ‘sit crosslegged’ and as telegraph
pole (also 1953).
Has 26 ‘mountain’, with 夆 (‘thrust upwards,
revolt; meet, encounter’; see Note below) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘sharp point/
tip’, thus ‘pointed summit’. Note: 夆 comprises
Mnemonic: SIT CROSSLEGGED ON
TELEGRAPH POLE ON MOUNTAIN PEAK
1961
砲
HŌ
gun, cannon
L1
10 strokes
HŌGANcannon ball
TEPPŌfirearms
TAIHŌbig gun, cannon
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Originally written
礮 (CO, itself a post-Shuowen graph). has
47 ‘rock/stone’, with 611 (‘envelop’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘send flying,
hurl’, thus ‘catapult device to hurl rocks a long
distance’. Later used for ‘cannon’. is noted
in Kangxi zidian as the popular form of 礮 .
ZY2009:v3:857; KJ1970:762; OT1968:711.
Mnemonic: ENVELOPED IN STONES FROM
CANNON
1962
崩
HŌ, kuzureru/su
crumble, collapse
L1
11 strokes
HŌKAIcollapse
nadare*avalanche
yamakuzurelandslide
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. It consists of 26 ‘mountain’, combined
with (originally [OBI], depiction of multiple
strings of shell currency; see Note below) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘break/split in
two, be destroyed’, giving ‘mountain crumbles’;
meaning then generalized to ‘crumble,
be destroyed’. There is a very minor meaning
‘die’ (used of emperors) which is an extended
sense. Note: By extension ‘pair of valuable
items’, and by further extension ‘friends;
throng together’. MS1995:v1:418-9,636-8;
KJ1970:860; OT1968:305. Take as two
moons / months 18.
Mnemonic: MOUNTAIN CRUMBLES IN JUST
TWO MONTHS
1963
蜂
HŌ, hachi
bee, wasp, hornet
L1
13 strokes
hachiMITSUhoney
HŌKIrevolt, uprising
hachinosuhive, hornets’ nest
Seal ( 蠭 ) ; a late graph (Shuowen). The seal
form has CO 䖵 ‘insect (generic)’, with (‘meet,
encounter’; see Note below) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘sharp tip’, interpreted in one
view as ‘insect with sharp tip’, i.e. ‘bee, wasp’
(Ogawa). Tōdō, though, looks to interpret differently,
as referring to a cone-shaped swarm
of bees around a queen-bee. In block script, the
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